Waubonsee Community College

Saltwater slavery, a middle passage from Africa to American diaspora, Stephanie E. Smallwood

eng

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-256) and index

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Saltwater slavery

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Stephanie E. Smallwood

"Smallwood's story gives us a graphic experience of the slave trade from the vantage point of the slaves themselves. Saltwater Slavery details how African people were ultimately transformed into commodities in the Atlantic market. Throughout, Smallwood examines how the people at the center of her story - merchant capitalists, sailors, and slaves - understood the brutal process that bound them together. The result is both a remarkable transatlantic view of the culture of enslavement, and a painful, intimate vision of the violent daily business of the slave trade."--Jacket

a middle passage from Africa to American diaspora

The Gold Coast and the Atlantic market in people -- Turning African captives into Atlantic commodities -- The political economy of the slave ship -- The anomalous intimacies of the slave cargo -- The living dead aboard the slave ship at sea -- Turning Atlantic commodities into American slaves -- Life and death in diaspora